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each day or go to school or to the movies are shaken. it's natural for us to wonder, why does this kind of suffering happen and what does it really mean? we who gather this evening have come to seek answers, not the answers that the commentators on television might provide but answers to the real questions that leave us feeling insecure and fearful. brothers and sisters, let us place our questions, our fears and our uncertainties tonight in the hands of our loving and merciful god. [ applause ] and let us trust, as difficult as that is, with our doubt and our fears, let us turn to him. let us ask him for the hope that we need to see in the midst of this darkness a new day dawning here in our community of aurora. in the wake of a tragedy like this, the conversation often turns to moving on, to getting back to our daily lives. but the gospel speaks comforting words in this time of sorrow and tells us very clearly, blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. and thank you for the banner in the back, angels walk with those who grieve. [ applause ] let us mourn for those who ha

perished, let us grieve for the loved ones who mourn their lives. in our mourning, our lord who is the great comforter is truly present to us but we do not grief live like those who have hope. we grieve that neither life nor death can separate us from his abundant love. his abundant love is our consolation. [ applause ] and so we return to our lives, let us see in this tragedy a reminder that our lives are fleeting and that they are a precious gift. they are a gift from god, a grace and they are given to us to glorify god, both in the short time that we have on earth and forever an eternity in heaven and let us glorify god and our love for him and let us glorify god and our love for one another and let us glorify god by responding to all violence by peace and to all evil with love. [ applause ] and so now let us bow our heads in prayer. loving and merciful god, we praise you and we adore you for your great mercy. you are truth, goodness, and beauty. you are the source of all that is good and all that is holy and you hate what is evil. you respond to evil, oh lord, with love and

, oh lord. be present to us. be present to us tonight. be present to us in the days ahead. help us to love as you love help us to build a community of peace. thank you for the peace for the survivors the families pray for their friends and neighbors who love them. pray for the conversion of the perpetrator of this terrible crime and we pray for our city for healing for strength to go forward. you are our hope, lord. we look to your resurrection as a sure sign that death does not defeat us, that death is not the end. instead we pray that each of us may join in the victory of your resurrection. we ask this through jesus christ our lord, amen. (applause) >> my name is read hedick chairman of the aurora community of faith. leadership matters. leadership matters when things are going well, but leadership really matters in moments of tragedy and crisis. here in aurora we are blessed. we are blessed with strong, capable leaders and every segment and every level of our society. we are wealth served -- we are well served we are well led. at the top of that heap is our mayor. please join me

shootings in u.s. history. hello i am judge jeanine pirro. this is part 2 of our special report on the colorado movie massacre. we are here with breaking news and we have with us adam housley. adam, are you with us? >> yes, june janeane. we are here to tell you about what's happening behind me. there have been a number of memorials over the last couple days the big one is taking place right now just begun after the president gave those words. he spoke for about 10 minutes or so talking about one story of incredible survival. we have heard a number of those stories. he talked about going to the hospital and giving people hugs and going here not just as the president but as a father and as a husband. of the people we met we know of three major operations takings place at the hospital a block or two from where we are standing that are continuing to help people that have some places in critical condition. the vigil has begun it has a number of different people speaking from a number of religious backgrounds as well as local leaders. there will be candles and tears and remembrances o

condition. it was the worst mass shooting in the u.s. since the killings of 32 people at virginia tech five years ago. we'll have more on the store after the headlines. syrian rebels continue to make gains on the regime of bashar al-assad, seizing a number of border crossings with neighboring iraq and turkey. opposition fighters overrun government forces at two major crossings, including one controlling the vital trade route on the damascus to baghdad highway. meanwhile, the syrian government says the country's intelligence chief, hisham ikhtiyar, has died from injuries sustained in wednesday's bombing of a high- level meeting in damascus, making him the fourth assad regime insider to die in the attack. and it's the violence, the united nations is warning 1 million syrians are now believed to be internally displaced, double the previous estimate. the fighting continues in syria one day after russia and china vetoed a security council resolution threatening new sanctions on the syrian regime. russia and china say they took action over demands for the inclusion of penalties under chapter seve

, thank you foring with with us tonight. >> thank you. >> how are you feeling? >> i am feeling really good. i am just thankful that my injury hit where it happened and not anywhere else. it didn't risk any chance of me not playing any sports that i play or continuing to do anything that i do on a regular basis. >> ladies and gentlemen, i think as you look at mckayla you see something below her lip on the right side of her face. why don't you tell the viewers what that is? >> so i was hit from my right side right here where all of the blood is and it knocked out a tooth, messed up some of my gums and ricochetted off the tooth and landed in my jaw and the chunk of the bullet is right here and there were fragments along my lip that they took out when they stitched me occupy. there's a tiny piece in my nose, but other than that, just this combhing is what they were worried about but they are keeping that in there due to the risk of nerve damage if they take it out. >> you are now still healing. the bullet started or went through that entrance area and part of it lodged over here on the other s

joy... can you tell us if police are saying anything more about a motive at this point. thank you joy.we'll speak with you again in about 20 minutes for an update on this developing story. the... ripken... released.. this statement: as... you...know,.../ our... mother... was abducted... at gunpoint... from her home... tuesday morning..../this... has... been a very trying time... for... our family,../. but... we're... grateful... and relieved... that... mom... is back with us,.../ safe and / healthy..../we... want... to thank everyone... for their tremendous support, .../ especially... all... the law enforcement agencies... that ...worked so hard and quickly.../.this... is... an... ongoing investigation, .../ so... we hope ...everyone understands ... we... cannot comment ...further at this time.../. thank you." police are asking anyone who has information on the abduction of vi ripken or if you think you saw that silver lincoln continental driving around.....you are asked to call 410 272-2121. and you can be the first to know about breaking news by signing up f

in london. the first stop of his first overseas trip of this campaign season and a chance for us to sit down with the presumptive gop nominee. more on that in just a moment. >>> first again tonight our attention is focused on the aftermath and investigation in colorado. a huge development in the case today. something from the accused gunman himself that was sent before the shooting that if discovered earlier might have changed this story. it's where we begin, again, tonight with miguel alguer in aurora, colorado. miguel, good evening. >> reporter: brian, good evening. a judge issued a gag order in this case, so police cannot publicly comment on the evidence they have received and gathered. law enforcement sources tell nbc news the suspect did mail a package which could become a valuable piece of evidence. senior law enforcement sources say accused gunman james holmes mailed the package here to the university of colorado medical center in aurora. the package is said to contain details writings about, quote, killing people. >> it's an important factor in assessing whether or not he was acting

joins us. "starting point" begins right now. welcome, our starting point this morning, new details coming to us about what was inside the apartment of the aurora colorado shooting suspect's home, after his bizarre appearance in court yesterday. cnn has new information, a law enforcement official who viewed videotape taken inside the apartment says this, mess of wires looked like spaghetti and it was rigged quote, right. if police hadn't dismantled the explosives the entire floor could have been consumed by flames before the first fire truck arrive. the aurora police found 30 improvised explosive devices surrounded by gas containers of gasoline. the gasoline was meant to enhance the effects of the blast. all of that brings us right to jim spellman. he's standing outside the theater. we can see the neon sign behind you. let's talk first about this video. i know it's black and white. what more can you tell us? >> yeah, police describe this whole apartment as being designed to kill. all rigged up to a trip wire at the front door. it took them almost two days before they could figure ou

think the u.s. economy possibly by the fourth quarter will be in a recession, and recession usually comes with bear markets. we have central banks around the world doing everything they can to keep us out of further weakness. the only reason that the s&p's are because of the prospect -- >> so which it really that spike in yields, the spanish debt, and the italian debt that unnerved the markets? what's behind this? it feels like it's a real headline risk driven market. >> yes, it reinforces the difficulty europe is having. it's on the heels of what the market thought would cure this. it's sovereign from the bailout to the individual banks and people realizing it's not as clear as that. that recession is likely intensifying. it's slowing down, and i think the u.s. economy is heading to a recession and there is negative implications for earnings. >> let's talk about earnings, because as peter says, we're going toward a recession here. we have chipotle today with bad guidance and revenue growth slowing there. should investors be more concerned than they seem to be? >> i think they shoul

. fill us in. >> reporter: what we know now is what we've been reporting. 14 people are dead. we're told ten of them were killed in the movie theater and four additional people were injured but taken to local hospitals and have since passed away. 50 people have been injured and are still alive. we're told that some are in serious condition, some are also in fair condition. the scene is definitely still unfolding here, so we don't have all of the information, but the numbers that we are -- just by the minute, this is really what we're learning, so we're trying to stay on top of this, but you can tell this is a very serious situation with 14 people daend some 50 injured. >> tell us what kind of crowd may have been assembled at the movie theater, at the century 16. obviously, this was a big night for this movie, midnight showings across the country. packed house, safe to say? >> reporter: absolutely. the people who were in theater number 9 who are talking with us -- and theater number 9 is where we believe that at least the shooting occurred. we're not sure if it started there, ended there

the street from where the suspect used to work at the university of t colorado medical center, two buildings there have been secured and bomb dogs are being taken through to ensure that nothing was left at that location. then at a high school nearby family and friends are being told aboutnd where their loved ones are and being notified officially. and finally at the police station we know that is where the suspect is located and we are told he is not cooperating with authorities and he does have a lawyer. thein press conference is scheduled to begin any minute. there is a lot going on. there is still a ton of evidence to collect and gather. we havend been told the weapons were purchased correctly although i will tell you i spoke with a federal authority we know very well who says they are looking into the extra large magazines that hold a ton of rounds, basically. we know one of those jammed in one of the rifles he was using. we will assure those were purchased correctly and where he gott them. one of the weapons was bought at a store down the street. we were there to buy supplies. this area

of the rifles he was using. we will assure those were purchased correctly and where he gott them. one of the weapons was bought at a store down the street. we were there to buy supplies. this area where w this has taken place, the location, where he lives, where he worked, here as wellon as the high school and the police station are all in like a three-mile radius. it is a close knit area, a close knit location when you talk about all of these scenes. and every single one is active. sean, as we give it back to you, it is eerie. we have been here all day. you hearhe stories about the cell phones ringing n side and no one to answer them. can you imagine the people on the other end making the calls? and if you look down the street, unfortunately from our vantage point you can't get there with our camera, but there were a number of hertzs were parked along the curb and to know they are getting the bodies is an eerie sight as they people are being taken out and loved ones officially notified. >> adam, i can see the press conference is about to start. one quick question here. i understand t

is live with more on this for us now. tracy, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, barbara. ncaa officials say these sanctions are meant to change the culture of athletics at penn state. while not punishing those who have done nothing wrong. it's a tough line to walk, but here's what the ncaa came up with. penn state has to pay a $60 million fine, which equals the amount of money generated annually by the football program. there will be a four-year ban on bowl games and any post-season competitions as well. there will be a reduction in sports scholarships from 25 to 15 for the next four years. the university will be stripped of all wins from 1998 through 2011. officials say that start date marks the date of the first infraction. the university will be on probation with the ncaa for the next five years, and the ncaa reserves the right to investigate individuals affiliated with the program and possibly levy additional sanctions after all criminal proceedings are complete. this historic penalty is brought by the ncaa followed former penn state assistant coach jerry sandusky's convic

massacres in u.s. history. well, tonight we've learned much more about how he lived, where he lived, and how it was he purchased an arsenal. we also learned today that gun sales are spiking in colorado in the aftermath of this shooting. while far to the east in washington today, the house of representatives stood still for a time. a moment of silence for the victims in colorado. one member of congress from colorado said, since she's been in congress, there have been 23 moments of silence for various victims of gun violence. she asked how many more there need to be until something is done. we begin our reporting tonight with nbc's mike taibbi in centennial, colorado. mike, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. it has happened in other cities where there have been horrible episodes of gun violence. gun sales and permit applications are soaring now. and also today, some questions. how did james holmes pay for the arsenal police say he put together in the months before the massac? >> is there anything i can do for you? >> reporter: at the rocky mountain guns and ammo shop in aurora, ow

, christine romans has that for us. >> moupting concern in the u.s. and israel about chemical weapons possibly entering the fray in syria, fierce fighting continuing overnight in city of alep po, the assad regime clinging to power this morning. here's the development that's getting attention, a spokesman publicly threatening to deploy chemical weapons against any foreign intervention. it's a threat senator john mccain is taking seriously. >> there is a danger of chemical weapons that are presently under bash ar al assad's control from flowing to hezbollah, presenting a grave threat to the security of israel. >> president obama warning the assad regime it would be a tragic mistake to use chemical weapons, promising syria will be held accountable if it does. >>> a new era for penn state's football program after a massive punish from the ncaa. they leveled a $60 million fine, imposed a four-year boan own postseason activity and stripped the school of scholarships and football victories for the last 14 seasons. penn state says it won't fight the stiff sanctions. we'll heard from mike and mike in t

. it is necessarily to speak, it is necessary to give a man to speak with us vernlthsz i want to explain how we got here. mali is in the middle of a war that the world needs to watch. the it began when the united states and nato intervened in libya. when the weapons were stolen by islamic radicals. the tour egg used the weapons to fight and declare independence from mali. the country was split in half. the mali government with only about 37,000 troops couldn't stop them, and frustrated by that failure, some commanders staged a koup. mali fell into complete disarray and that's when islamic radicals seized the moment. person after person here has told us they've seen fighters from the middle east. the islamic radicals kept in and kraushd the tour egg. they have many more weapons. 340u7b9 mounted on the back of 4 x 4s. the radicals use those weapons to destroy historic shrines. they say the consequences of the world letting this convinces grow bigger and bigger are dire. >> translator: the actions of the terrorists have direct convinces for europe and the united states. >> i can tell you here people a

of a movie next to us. so nobody thought anything of it. 30 seconds later, they evacuated us. we were hearing from friends that were actually inside -- i'm pretty sure they were in theater nine, one of the main theaters, that he was wearing a gas mask and throwing tear gas at people. he wasn't trying to let anybody out. >> really? >> yes. >> did you see anybody who was hurt? >> yeah. we saw people -- we saw a couple people hunched over leaving the theater and ambulances were filled, but they weren't going anywhere. >>> good morning, everyone. welcome to "early start." we have breaking news to report wri right now. a shooting at a theater overnight at the showing of "the dark knight rises" that happened in aurora, colorado. a suburb of denver. dozens of police and firefighters are on the scene right now. our affiliate is following the story, everyone following the story now. we have reports of multiple deaths. we are working to confirm that. we know it was a multiple shooting of "the dark knight rises." aurora, colorado is about nine miles east of denver. local hospitals reporting patients are

. they weren't exactly sure what kind of materials he had been using and they want to use a robot with cameras and now they can really get a sense of what they were up against. this could have been an incredibly tragic and more deadly situation with someone unsuspecting just walked into this apartment and this thing was ready to trigger as soon as someone opened the door and that could have easily have killed more people. >> so, ed, i wonder, this is a pretty sizeable apartment complex and they have cordoned off the wear and evacuated that apartment complex for an undetermined amount of time. have some of the residents of that apartment complex been milling around? have they been asking questions about where they'll retrieve their belongings and pets or anything like that? >> reporter: you know, what's really frightening is we've spoken -- some of my colleagues have spoken to the woman that lives just below james holmes and is obviously one of the people that had been evacuated. she explained to us the night of the shooting that there was loud music emerging from james holmes apartment and tha

of chefs, first, the latest on the tragedy in colorado and how it affects us all. >>> good morning, i'm melissa harris-perry. today, president barack obama will travel to aurora, colorado to meet with the grieving families of the victims of a shooting street that turned a midnight screening of "the dark knight rises" into a horrific tragedy. 26 victims remain hospitalized this morning. 9 in critical condition. the suspect, 24-year-old james holmes, a former neuroscience graduate student, is being held in solitary confinement, while he awaits a court appearance in the county on monday. yesterday, federal and local authorities disarmed the explosives rigged inside holmes' apartment, designed to kill whomever entered it. police have allowed residents evacuated from surrounding homes to return. let's get the latest from kristen dahlgren from aurora. good morning, kristen. >> reporter: good morning, melissa. you can see holmes' apartment behind me here, the one on the third floor there with windows broken out by authorities. as they were disarming those bombs. his building is still roped o

not updated his own. do you own an ipod? >> i do have a cell phone. >> and tom brokaw tells us about billy fisk, an american olympic champion with a lot of fans here in great britain because of something he did during the darkest hours of world war ii. >>> also tonight, a week after the tragedy in colorado, the lessons that a terrible massacre might have taught us all. >> at the end of this, this could be hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not millions of dollars. >> for one patient? >> for one patient. >> that and more as "rock center" gets under way from london. good evening. we are coming to you tonight from tower bridge in london as we prepare to cover the start of the summer olympic games. our preview begins a bit later on in this hour because we begin back home tonight with the tragedy that americans just can't shake -- the awful massacre at that movie theater in aurora, colorado. it was exactly a week ago tonight, in fact. 12 dead, 58 wounded and a dozen people are still in the hospital. and this is where the colorado tragedy merges with another story we have covered so much. many

secretary they used to give us a hard time because of president bush's approval rating. i remember being asked what are you going to do about it. i said there are only two entities in washington that lower approval raidings than george w. bush congress and the media so what are you going to do about it. and they continued to make things worse for themselves and for journalism with things like this. this is not the first time. this happened when congress woman gabrielle giffords was shot. everybody goes to the tea party website to see if there is a connection. i don't know any tea party member whose first and foremost passion is about the second amendment. the fact that they were looking for some connection immediately really is oh h offensive. >> mike: it would be like taking brian ross' name and saying we know there was a brian ross arrested for child molesting in upstate new york. >> oops, sore. >> karch: the wron sorry, wronn ross. >> is it more important to be right than it is to be first? >> i was the press secretary when the virginia tech shooting happened. when a crisis breaks, fi

to overseas companies. [ romney ] i'm mitt romney and i approve this message. . >>> joining us i'm jessica doyle. jc hayward has the day off. >>> police in aerror remark colorado are identifying to -- in aurora, colorado are trying to navigate through jamie holmes' home. at least 12 people are dead and over 50 are injured in a shooting. among those hurt is a 3-month- old baby. police say 24-year-old holmes walked into the theater and started firing. here's what witnesses had to say about the horror inside that theater. >> he was just in a black gas mask and all black. besides that -- [ inaudible ] >> he took a gun and pointed it straight to my face. he was literally three feet away from me. he was wearing a gas mask and he looked like he was from a s.w.a.t. team or something. i was just terrifed. i didn't know what to do. i jumped forward into the aisle and curled into a ball and waited for him to go up the stairs. >> there was a break. stuck my head up. caught a glimpse of him, the main silhouette and he started shooting again. >> none of us knew what was going on. at that point there's a

that had been evacuated. she explained to us the night of the shooting that there was loud music emerging from james holmes apartment and that she had gone up there to knock on the door and at one point had called authorities to let them know about that, but they said they were too busy with the shooting and they couldn't spare someone to come over here and do that, but she said the door was unlocked and told us the door was unlocked. obviously, she's very emotional about the fact she easily could have opened up that door and who knows what would have happened if she had done that. so luckily, for her, she decided not to do that and went back downstairs, but a lot of this area remains cordoned off and remains shut down. at one point, it would allow authorities to come back and james holmes' apartment, that will be shut down for quite some time and i'm not sure whether the surrounding areas will be opened up here in the coming days. obviously, the people whoive around this area are probably antsy to get back into their apartments and they'll be passing on developments about that and how th

aviv. he is visiting the key u.s. ally a place that obama has yet to visit since coming to the white house. i'm healther childers. >> i'm kelly wright. he is spending 36 hours in israel. including prime minister benjamin netanyahu. ahead of his trip he signed a bill reaffirming the united states commitment to israel and the administration announced additional defense funding for the jewish state. molly henneberg is live in washington, d.c. where she has been following all this. critics say the actions were timed to upstage governor's romney's visit. >> the white house says no to that. governor romney says he will not criticize president obama directly while he is overseas but romney has spoken previously while in the u.s. of obama's administration shabby treatment of israel. the israeli people deserve better than what they received from the leader of the free world. he is romney on the plane to israel today. israel is fearful of a nuclear attack by iran and governor romney will make the case he would be tougher with iran than president obama. he said in an interview with an israeli p

, and it did take people, witnesses tell us, a little while to realize something wasn't right. i did speak to one gentleman who says he was in the very bark row of theater number 9. he got down on the floor and he waited there as long as he could before everybody started leaving the theater very quickly, he says. this is one of those situations where because of the movie that was showing, many people didn't realize that it wasn't part of the movie and that it wasn't part of some type of special effect for people who were going to the actual movie. >> jace, what about the suspect? we just heard the police chief in aurora tell us they have someone in custody. what do the police know about him? >> reporter: we don't know anything about him at this point. we just know there's one person in custody. we're being told that all indications are that this person acted by himself. they're still, of course, looking to see if there's somebody else out there, but all indications are, according to the aurora police chief, that this is just one person acting alone. >> and jace, one of the first things tha

officer, and you think we are angry, we sure as hell are angry. >> schieffer: chief oates will be with us this morning as we continue to report on the largest mass shooting in u.s. history, a crime that has so far left 12 dead and 70 wound. even after the arrest of james holmes, questions remain: how and for what reason could all this have happened? we'll also talk to aurora congressman ed perlmutter, aurora mayor, steve hogan, and new york mayor michael bloomberg who says the presidential candidates must stop avoiding the subject of guns. >> where are they now and why don't they stand up and if they want our votes, they better? >> schieffer: we'll also bring in the cbs team covering this story, correspondents barry petersen, bob miller, and bob orr. in london, reports this morning that israeli security forces are searching for an iranian terror squad planning an attack on really olympic athletes. we'll get the latest on that from israel prime minister benjamin netanyahu. plus analysis on all of the above from our own norah o'donnell and john dickerson because this is "face the nation"."

the injured, two u.s. air force reservists and one navy service member. earlier today, president obama spoke about the tragedy. >> my daughters go to the movies. what if malia and sasha had been at the theater as so many of our kids do every day. michelle and i will be fortunate enough to hug our girls a little tighter tonight and i'm sure you will do the same with your children, but for those parents who may not be so lucky, we have to embrace them and let them know we will be there for them as a nation. so again, i'm so grateful that all of you are here. i am so moved by your support, but there are going to be other days for politics. this i think is a day for prayer and reflection. >> joining me today, "time" magazine deputy washington bureau chief, michael crowley and patricia murphy, contributor to the daily beast. certainly a day of reflection. we are all still processing a lot as it comes to the details of this tragedy. michael, i want to talk about the president's comments, saying this isn't a day for politics, calling for us to -- it's a reminder of the fragility of life and calling

and shooting investigation, just go to foxnews.com online on whatever device you use for the very latest information on this story. >> heather: you can believe this 100 days left in the race for the white house. it can't get any tighter. a new poll showing president obama and governor romney are all tied up with 46% each. these numbers especially significant looking ahead to november. in nine of the past ten elections, the candidate leading the gallup poll to hundred days out has won the presidency. what about this. it's all tied up. john is a columnist and thanks for joining us. all tied, 46% down to the finish who crosses first and wins november 6th and how? >> obviously we have a lot of game changing events. we have three presidential events. each candidate is going to have a speech laying out the future. the basics of this campaign have been the same for a long time. president obama is the incumbent. everybody knows him. everybody has an opinion on him. he has not crossed 50% of the vote in two key questions in over two years. one, do you believe he deserves reelection and two do you

of the tragic shooting in aurora, colorado as officials try to figure out if the alleged gunman used taxpayer money, intended for his education, to fund his rampage. >>> a killer whale attacking his trainer in 2006. a man dragged by his foot and held under water. incredibly he survived. we'll tell you why these images just released. >>> team "today" in the uk. with opening ceremonies a few days away we've all made our way to london today, july 25th, 2012. >> announcer: from nbc news, this is a special edition of "today," countdown to the olympic games with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from olympic games with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from london, england. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> and good morning, everyone. welcome to "today" on this wednesday morning. i'm matt lauer. my third day here in london during the buildup to the summer olympic games. we're standing here at the tower of london. behind me the famed tower bridge with the olympic ring hanging beneath it as this city gets prepared to welcome the world here in just a couple of days. now, savann

, calling for us to -- it's a reminder of the fragility of life and calling for unity. what did you make of his comments? >> it's always a fine line because there are a lot of people who don't want to be hearing about politics, they don't want -- people want to be very careful about not exploiting a terrible tragedy like this. there is a pretty credible counterargument that says you don't turn it into a political fight where you're trying to get an advantage over your enemies and exploit it but i do think it's reasonable to have a national conversation about the context, about why these things happen, whether there are things we can do to prevent tragedies like this. if a plane crashes because you think the aircraft control system wasn't working, you would talk about how to reform it. but guns is such a volatile loaded subject, i think someone like obama and probably mitt romney are going to step back because they know that walking into that conversation immediately just turns into a distorted politicized -- >> mitt romney is expected to make remarks in the next few minutes. we'll bring

. with the games and olympic fever officially start today. in just about an hour, the u.s. women's soccer team will kick off competition. you're looking at their gold medal win from the beijing olympics. this year their third straight gold. they begin their quest against france. you can catch their first match live on nbc sports network at noon today. >>> then tonight is the final rehearsal for london's spectacular opening ceremony, but the show's director is begging spectators to stay tight lipped about what is on that show. director danny boyle is making a personal plea for fans to keep e quiet. started a hash tag on twitter keep the surprise. a british countryside complete with live goats, sheep and even sheep dogs. remember nbc 4 is your home for the summer games and you can keep up with the comtitian any time on the 2012 section on nbcwashington.com. >>> a look at the weather now and a short break from the heat. storm 4 meteorologist tom kierein joins us with a full forecast. sure feels nice, tom. >> i would like to award a gold medal to this day today. it is absolutely gorgeous. a perfec

flooding. out to the west out into west virginia, eastern ohio, showers and storms and that will bring us a round of heavy showers and thunderstorms. we already have a flash flood watch issued for most of the area here west of the chesapeake bay starting at 12:00 noon today. look out for that potential later this afternoon and tonight. i think your morning hours are fine but by mid- to late afternoon, look out for the showers. some of those will be heavy. 87 your daytime high in washington. 89 in fredericksburg. >> we've been getting used to it with all the power outages if you come across any traffic signals that are dark, please be sure to use those as a four- way stop. we are following the situation here traveling the inner loop at 201. disabled vehicle here and some activity off to the right shoulder t look like everybody is moving past it at much better speed now. your delays should be easing out from college park heading into greenbelt. on the outer loop from college park heading into silver spring, you are in good shape. 66, new accident here. this is just prior to route 50 fair oa

be much better off using this sort of tax cuts that might be available to us to do targeted attack cuts such as those of the president recently proposed and are being debated in the senate right now. >> jean, i want to give you a chance, you feel very differently about this. that actually there will be an adverse effect on the small business. that 3% is quite meaningful. >> this is a debate about job creation. and if you look at the businesses that are affected in the upper bracket levels. they are job creators. they produce more of the jobs than the rest of the small business community. so it's very impactful when it comes to jobs. again, i think i said it before, anything in the current economic environment that discourages job creation is just a bad idea. it also sends a terrible message. small business owners pay taxes at the individual rate and a lot of people don't understand that. so whenever there's a debate about individual rates and making them higher, the small business community, that makes them very nervous because today it's 250,000 but what is it going to be next year whe

's going on in this case now. >> ed lavandera on the scene for us as he's been right from the beginning. thank you. elsewhere, in maryland, police say the fbi are now investigating an abduction with ties to the baseball legend cal rib ken jr. his mother was found safe this morning almost 24 hours after being taken from her home at gunpoint. cnn's lisa sylvester's working the story for us. what happened here, lisa? >> hi there, wolf. what we know is this all started about 7:00, 8:00 yesterday morning when a man apparently approached and went to violet ripken's house and abducted her at gunpoint. he then according to authorities spent most of the day driving around in her car throughout central maryland. and it was only until around 8:30 last night when there was a citizen in the neighboring county, in baltimore county, who saw a suspicious vehicle. he called it in to county authorities. and at that point it was that tip that eventually led to violet ripken being found this morning unharmed back near her house in aberdeen. she was however bound. authorities at this point are not clear wha

's ed lavandera is in aurora for us. ed, what do we know about this package? >> reporter: well, we're still trying to gather information on what exactly is inside that package, wolf. but as you mentioned that law enforcement official telling cnn that on monday police and fbi discovered a package that was apparent apparently sent by james holmes, the 24-year-old suspected gunman. now it's unclear obviously if this package was indeed sent by him, it was clearly sent before he was taken into custody. it arrived at some point on monday at the university mail room. we've also been told by hospital officials over the last couple of days this is something we've been monitoring for some time that there were two packages that were suspicious and were being looked into, one found in the mail room and also one that was actually delivered to a university professor. so we've been trying to nail down more information on this. and we'll continue to do so, wolf. >> what's the university of colorado saying about all of this, ed? >> reporter: well, now that the details have come out that this packag

investigator, aurora police chief daniel oates, is joining us this morning for his first interview since all of this happened. chief, thank you very much for taking the time to be with us. can you first clear up this story that originated overnight that investigators were looking for some so-called person of interest. what was that all about? >> sure. i'm not quite sure what the term "person of interest" means. we're interested in anyone who knew or had contact with the suspect, and this was a person who had contact with the suspect. suspect, eye casual acquaintance. we found him yesterday. we interviewed him. the relationship was real inconsequential. and we're happy that we spoke to him, but that's all that was. and as a responsible part of this investigation, we would be doing that with any of his acquaintances. so it's really an inconsequential matter. >> schieffer: as far as you know at this time, this involves only one person? >> all the evidence we have, every single indicator, is that this was-- this is all mr. holmes' activity and that he wasn't particularly aided by anyone else. >>

the week's news. >> suarez: a follow-up to our recent story about smart meters used to monitor energy use. spencer michels reports on california activists who want to ban them. >> pacific gas & electric one of the nation's largest utilities has had to fight a coalition of people who suspect, among other things, that smart meters may be bad for your health. >> brown: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. >> and by the bill and melinda gates foundation. dedicated to the idea that all people deserve the chance to live a healthy, productive life. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> brown: once again today, americans absorbed the news of a mass shooting-- a dozen dead, at least 59 hurt or wounded. it happened in the city of aurora, just east of

information that could be used as evidence? and we're left with the lingering question and there's no good answer to this yet and that is why did he do that? the new york police commissioner ray kelly had reported that he had his hair painted red and said he was the joker and since then, there has been verification of that, that james holmes, the 24-year-old suspect, did indeed tell police he was the joker, but why is the outstanding question, ron. >> we've got 12 people dead, 71 reported wounded. is there any word as far as the wounded, how many of those 71 might be critically wounded? >> i just talked to some people who were at the hospital, the major hospital where the victims had been brought and they say they're being very closed mouthed. you can understand why and that is because a lot of the family members are trying to be contacted and so, we really don't know. we do know that some people have already been discharged, including a baby who was less than a year old who was inside the theatre, but as far as how many maybe seriously, maybe have life threatening injury, i haven't seen t

devices and set off two so far i've heard, devices of their own little pop caps or whatever they're using to try and diffuse whatever is in the apartment. the perfect scenario for the authorities would be to do that to defuse the first couple of and get inside with the robots and defuse the rest of the apartment and be able to secure the rest the apartments so people could return home and resume their lives, but more importantly for authorities, to secure the evidence inside holmes' apartment and you can bet there's going be to be a plethora of evidence inside of that apartment here in aurora, colorado. it looks like jonathan, from your-- from our vantage point they're going to try to have a couple of bomb technicians walking in through the parking lot entrance and the most we've seen since this operation began about an hour ago, jon? >> all right, incredible work there, adam. thank you very much. let's talk about the delicate task that lies ahead. former new york police captain, peter moreno is now director of operations for broadening risk consultants and he knows a thing or two about d

. the national search for understanding gives us something to do and some desperate order for us to claim. as a friend at fox put it something to occupy our mind, our minds racing with thoughts who made it out the those who did not. those still in the hospital. and the funerals to come, the greening to endure. and, then, the new day, later this summer, but i guess we move on. until then it is a mad media rush which i am a part, truth be told, trying to make desperate sense of scenes played and replayed that doctors will abide their patients not to watch and i cannot blame them. it could set off depression or copycats or a disturbing sense of horrible real drama. the worse kind of reality show. but reality, however. the he is not about red or blue. and god knows i am not a psychologist or psychiatrist. but whoever you look to for guidance, say a prayer. and ask for the wisdom not so much to understand this but how, together, we can find our way to a better day. i don't know what else to say. back to what the heck happened this day. to set up this craziness. to adam with the latest in color

and strategists. sheila will join us to take a look at money and politics. then we will get an update from iraq. 's futurealk about iraqi' in light of violence this week. that is tomorrow at 7:00. we will see you then. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] >> today, we will show you some of the international aids conference held this week in washington. dr. fauci is a first. he is followed by secretary of state hillary clinton and former first lady laura bush. this week, one of the world's leading aids researchers outlined the steps necessary for ending the global pandemic. he spoke at the 2012 aids conference held in washington for the first time in 25 years. dr. fauci is followed by phill wilson of the black aids institute. this is 55 minutes. >> please welcome francoise barre-sinoussi. >> thank you. it is a privilege and honor to introduce the first speaker of the first plenary session of the aids 2012 conference back in washington, d.c., after 25 years. [applause] only one person could give this first talk, a person

. that means we may have to take a deal that gets us on the right path even if it does not give us the right structure. we will have the opportunity to get on the right structure and we will have the money to deal with it. it means we have to deal with the deficit before we are ever going to resolve all of the issues in health care and tax reform. i want to be sure that people do not have the sense that if we do not solve the entire 70 five- year, 150 year deficit issue, that anything short of that is a failure. there is no public-policy issue we have solved 75 years into the future. it is a result of inflated expectations and rhetoric to expect we will solve this problem 75 years out, or 100 years out in the future. my message is, let's not the perfect be the enemy of the good. if we can get onto a good path, let's take it and work from there to a better structure. >> i agree with that but let me be more optimistic about tax reform. this may be a moment where we dropped the impediment of incrementalism in tax reform which is fatal because then you are arguing about whose ox gets gored. this

and use it to strengthen our commitment to each other. >> to the families of those gathered here today, we remain here for you. our community is here for you. colorado is here for you and always will be. >> the senseless and evil act of violence left many of us wondering how and why this could happen. these questions arise when the everyday securities and certainties of life, the trust we carry in our fellow human beings, that we can go safely to work each day or go to school or to the movies are shaken. it's natural for us to wonder why does this kind of suffering happen and what does it really mean. martha: boy, indeed it is. those are the big questions this morning and police say that the 24-year-old suspect, james holmes is refusing to cooperate ahead of his court appearance which happens this morning. right now he is in solitary confinement. alicia acuna is live outside the courthouse in centennial, colorado, where this will play out in next couple hours. how is this expected to go? >> reporter: this could all be over with in five minutes or less. this is just the beginning of the pro

's latest round of austerity measures. stephon joins us for more. stefan, in a way, not only the latest, but spain, there were two things that were supposed to happen. the bailout terms were supposed to be light. and it now looks with a memorandum of understanding that won't be the case. and also the eu is supposed to inject money directly into the spanish banks, and the spanish government not be responsible. and equally i guess that doesn't look like it's going to happen either. >> yes, it's going to be a built heavier than what the spanish government was planning to do. interesting timing also, russ. yesterday while the german lawmakers were voting in favor of the spanish bailout package, the spanish workers were in the street to protest against the new austerity measures. it's not the first time they are protesting against the austerity package, but it was the first demonstration organized by the two main unions of the country, the two main trade unions. in total, more than 80 demonstrations took place across the country. and it looks like the government is taking the situation very

department, cassidy carlson and gave us more information about what we knew before we went to break we did get the confirmation that that door to james holmes' apartment was set to kill, a quote from the police officer. set to kill whoever opened it and you spoke to the lady who almost opened the door the night of this event. and cassidy carson, we've been successful in defeating the first threat and the traps were set to kill those entering first in the apartment. if that's in fact true they may have found that entry point to get bomb technicians inside to get potentially the bomb robots inside. and part of the issue, it's not just one or two bombs to kill whoever opened the door, there are a number of devices intertwined with wire, bottles they say the size of coke bottles filled with a liquid that looks like water and we don't know what it is, balloons with powder inside, potentially gun powder and bullets laying around and other pieces of stuff, basically, that could become schrapnel if this was to go up. so this apartment is booby trapped from floor to ceiling. now, we do know that au

. >> i'd like us to pause for a moment of silence for the victims of this terrible tragedy. >>> good evening, i'm ron reagan in seattle filling in for chris matthews. leading off tonight, tragedy in colorado. it happens all too often and the names have become to familiar. jones borrow, arkansas, virginia tech, columbine and now, aurora, colorado. it happened not far from columbine, where a sold out crowd gaterred in theatre nine for the premier of "the dark knight rises." police say a 24-year-old man walked through an exit door dressed in black, a black helmet, a bulletproof vest, throat protector, groin protector and black gloves. police say he was also carrying three weapons. a rifle, shotgun and a handgun. witnesses say holmes calmly set off some kind of device and began firing randomly and terrified moviegoers. people desperately tried to flee, in some cases, helping victims get out. in other cases, simply running for their lives. police say 71 were shot and 12 were killed. james holmes was arrested without a struggle in his car outside the theatre. police say holmes warned he ri

. i know there are almost twice as many suicides every year in the u.s. as there are murders but while we immediately cry for laws to address mass murder when is the last time you heard someone say we need to deal with the mental illnesses resulting in suicides especially and most tragically among our military veterans. i'm not attempting to disparage the attention being given to the aurora theaterring 14509ing. we should all offer our help for the emotional and victim recovery of survivors. a wife who dies at the hands of a serial abuser is also a precious life. ultimately we don't have a crime problem or a gun problem or even a violence problem. what we have is a sin problem. and since we have ordered god out of our schools and community, the military and public conversations you know we really shouldn't act so surprised when all hell breaks loose. [ applause ] >> mike: we want to go to our fox news correspondent in aurora with the latest. alicia acuan is at the aurora medical center. >> we received an update from the trauma surgeon. they originally received 18 patients and released

tonight. mike tobin will have more on that later in the hour. just down the street where the suspect used to work at the university of colorado medical center, two buildings there have been secured and bomb dogs are being taken through there to ensure nothing was left at that location. then at a high school nearby. families and friends are being told about where loved ones are and being notified officially and finally at the police station we know he that is where the suspect is located and we are told again that he is not cooperating with authorities any longer and he does have a lawyer. the press conference we are expecting to begin any minute. they have been a bit late today. a lot going on. there is still a ton of evidence to collect and gather. we have been told that the weapons were purchased correctly. although i will tell you that i spoke with a federal authority here that we know well who told me that they are looking into the extra large magazines that hold a ton of rounds basically. one of those jammed in one of the rifles he was using. if they were purchased correctly, where h

was using. if they were purchased correctly, where he got them. one of the weapons was bought from a store just down the street from there. we have been there before to get supplies when we have been here. just down the street from where we are located. this whole area where this is taking place, the suspect's location and where he lived and worked here as well as the high school and the police station are all in like a three mile radius. a close knet area and location. every single one is active tonight. extremely eerie. we have been here all day. the stories about the cell phones ringing inside and no one to answer them. imagine the people on the other end making the phone calls. a vantage point you can't get to with the camera. there was a number of hearsts parked along the curb. an eerie is sight for sure as people are being taken out and loved ones officially notified. >> i see the press conference is about to start. one quick question here. i understand the police have pulled out there is the police chief as we head back to colorado where they are now you beginning their press confer

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